projecting shape files, in R?

Dear Alessandra,

I am still relatively new in using R, but I can make my .prj files myself.
By using the following command, I can make a shapefile with the information
I already uploaded. It gives me the .dbf, .prj, .shp and .shx files.


writeOGR(data, dsn = ".", layer ='choose name', driver = 'ESRI Shapefile')


You didn't give a lot of information so I don't know exactly if this line
is also applicable to your case. I think it depends on your data, but maybe
somebody more experienced can give additional or other advice. Or you can
look up the code line I wrote in the help box!

Good luck!

Janka


2014-10-03 13:32 GMT+02:00 Alessandra Carioli <alessandracarioli at gmail.com>:

Dear Mailing list members,

I need a projected shape file but I don?t have the .prj information and I
was wondering if anything like projecting a shape file to obtain
coordinates in longitude and latitude can be done. My issue is that I am
producing semivariograms and, although I think distances are in meters, I
want to be 100% sure. Also, being the considered area rather big (Europe)
considering the projected coordinated would make my computation more
precise.

Any ideas?

Ale

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